KP: Liberal talk radio “sucks”

posted at 5:20 pm on June 22, 2007 by Allahpundit

I’m tempted to call this part of her evolution towards conservatism, but it isn’t really. It’s just simple acknowledgment of fact, like my own observation the other day about how pathetically pathetic the Republican presidential candidates’ ads thus far have been. What she didn’t note (since most people don’t know it) is that there’s a lot more liberal talk radio out there than the “Fairness” advocates would have you believe. It’s not that Americans don’t have a choice; it’s that, per KP’s eloquent formulation, liberal talk radio sucks. Stop sucking and you won’t need the Fairness Doctrine.

The guest here is Chris Wallace, by the way. By my count, it’s the second Friday in a row he’s flirted openly with KP on air. If it happens again, the big A’s going to have to go down there and set things straight. Memo to Chris: you’ve made yourself a very powerless enemy, my friend.

Update: As you’ll hear, she insists that Hillary has never publicly called for reinstating the Fairness Doctrine. I googled around earlier thinking that must be wrong, but I confess I couldn’t find anything to contradict her. Did I miss something? Or is this a task Hillary has farmed out to her flunkies, like John Podesta?

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WRKO put a Lib (former speaker of MA House) on morning drive and he has tanked the stations ratings so bad, one of the oldest and largest talk radio stations in the nation is in a panic trying to find a conservative to pair him with.

It’s just simple acknowledgment of fact, like my own observation the other day about how pathetically pathetic the Republican presidential candidates’ ads thus far have been

Would you decline to vote for a candidate because his or her ads were mediocre? The Democrats practically own the media. They will always put on slick ads, they have gobs of talent willing to perform for them.
On the other hand … the media industry is putting out crap movie after crap movie, lame TV shows, lousy news … but it all LOOKS good, for a few initial minutes anyway.

My wife listens to Stephanie Miller in the morning. (Yes, I am in a mixed marriage.) SM sounds like she is trying to be Laura Ingraham, but without the talent and guests. I have never heard anyone substantial on her show. But, this is a paraphrase of one of her quotes regarding the immigration issue:

‘I don’t like to refer to them as “illegal immigrants.” Thats so dehumanizing. It’s not like they committed a crime and killed someone.’

As you’ll hear, she insists that Hillary has never publicly called for reinstating the Fairness Doctrine.

The operative word there being “publicly”. Given that her husband blamed the Oklahoma City bombing in part on conservative talk radio, you can bet your pooper that she’d vote for reinstatement of the “fairness doctrine” faster than she could shred an incriminating document.

Well, bless her heart, as my Grandpa would say. And she’s absolutely right. In some ways liberal talk radio is a victim of liberal dominance of the media–why tune in to listen to exact same material you’ll get anywhere else in the Old Media? It’s redundant, plus when you get it off the rado it comes with bonus bile, venom, and hatred.

But it’s hardly fair to be hatin’ on C-Wall for flirting with KP–I mean, I would too, except I’m spoken for. Okay, I probably would a little anyway, just not seriously.

KP is right as most others have said. If more of the dims were as “normal” as her, Republicans would be in more trouble than they are already.
I think Chris is a grandfather (I remember him talking to his dad one time on his show and talking about the new baby in the family) but I’m sure he’s like thousands of harmless older men who enjoy a little flirting with a pretty girl every now and then especially when Mrs. Wallace isn’t around.
As for Allah, she seems like a nice girl and I certainly wish you all the best in your pursuit of Ms. Powers.

Of course it sucks. How could it not? Liberals haven’t had a new idea in thirty years, so are reduced to demonstrating their progressive bona fides by repeating the same ‘Republicans want to start wars, enrich big business, and kill poor people, womyn and gays’ baloney.

Why listen to a talk radio show that just regurgitates what the news broadcasts have been saying all day?

Back during Bush I, I remember some late night liberal talk radio shows – they were pretty shallow and nothing more than negative images of the other talk shows – I don’t recall any original ideas coming from them, but I had the double whammy of listening to the news AND going to school, so I was getting a double dose of lefty logic before the talk shows came on.

Rush has 20 million buyers, the reason liberals want the Fairness Doctrine back is to narrow the debate in their favor in one of the only markets that isn’t dominated by their lack of truth and substance programing that doesn’t sell.

A new Fairness doctrine will put Radio stations out of business and that smacks of everything liberal.

WRKO put a Lib (former speaker of MA House) on morning drive and he has tanked the stations ratings so bad, one of the oldest and largest talk radio stations in the nation is in a panic trying to find a conservative to pair him with.

TheBigOldDog on June 22, 2007 at 5:27 PM

You know you’ve hit rock bottom when the only Lib you can find to put on the radio is a disgaced, disbarred, convicted felon. What’s better than to hear all his ass munching lackies call in and refer to him as “Mistah Speakah”.

The reason why conservative talk shows work is that they have built their audiences from the bottom up. Guys like Rush started with a small conservative audience and then built it up.

By contrast, liberal talk show radio seeks to create an audience from the top down. Their talk show program was just like a big centralized government white elephant program. They started out broadcasting across the nation to the big markets. Just like a big dumb government program, it began failing right from the beginning.

One of the underlying reasons that conservative talk radio succeeds is that it is fundamentally democratic while liberal talk radio is fundamentally authoritarian. Their respective approaches to talk radio springs from their respective approaches to politics and governing.

The guest here is Chris Wallace, by the way. By my count, it’s the second Friday in a row he’s flirted openly with KP on air. If it happens again, the big A’s going to have to go down there and set things straight. Memo to Chris: you’ve made yourself a very powerless enemy, my friend.